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Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:46:47 +0000http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2007/01/17/28-hours-later-level-70/It’s been done. A French player reached Level 70 in only 28 hours, using help from multiple guildmates to grind and a very carefully planned attack on the Outland. Full details Here, including on how he made sure to note that he was at the keys for the entire 28 hour stretch.
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http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2007/01/17/the-daily-blink-2/#commentsWed, 17 Jan 2007 12:46:06 +0000http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2007/01/17/the-daily-blink-2/
]]>http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2007/01/17/the-daily-blink-2/feed/3Midnight Release in Orlandohttp://azeroth.metblogs.com/2007/01/16/midnight-release-in-orlando/
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:02:14 +0000http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2007/01/16/midnight-release-in-orlando/The line at EB Games in my part of Orlando was not so much a release “event” as it was a midnight “Gimme my game as soon as possible so i can go home and roll a Shaman”. Besides one very excited group of l33t nerds at the front of the line that debated PvP strats (they were at the front because, hey, they would have been at the store loitering anyways), the whole line was full of very quiet, focused gamers who just wanted the thing and wanted to get out. One EBGames employee walked the line trying to psych people up, as if improving morale would insure that a few more strategy guides would be sold. (We were about 15th in line, none were sold before we procured ours.)

The only other crack was one older gentleman who remarked, “I’m gonna wait for 10 minutes to get Burning Crusade so I can go home and wait in the AV queue for 40. GG, Blizzard.” GG indeed, considering he was one of the lucky recipients to pre-order one of the *five* collector’s editions available at the store.

Finally, I wanted to make one observation to the kid first in line that *sprinted* out of the store after buying his copy: No matter how fast you ran, you were not going to be the first to 61. Sorry to be the dream-crusher.

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http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/07/01/what-now/#commentsSun, 02 Jul 2006 00:14:18 +0000http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/07/01/what-now/Since 1.11 I’ve been seeing a graphical error rear its head after playing for awhile, and I have no idea what it is. Toons running around start appearing completely untextured and black, except for key components like hair, weapons, or random pieces of armor.
It starts out as group members, and then *my* toon turns black, and soon everyone is running around without any textures.
Today, a new bug added itself to thsi process: All the textures started to deteriorate to extremely crappy levels, as if it was a 256 color game. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? And can i point the blame at WoW, or my graphic card starting to die on me?

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http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/06/28/character-transfers-live/#commentsWed, 28 Jun 2006 20:39:13 +0000http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/06/28/character-transfers-live/Paid Character Transfers hit the WoW homepage today, and I was lucky (?) enough to have a character sitting on one of the available source realms gathering dust. In a moment of extreme jingoism for my new guild, I decided to move him over to Eitrigg, even though he’s level 15 and probably not worth the 25 dollar fee to move him.

However, I’m happy to report that the transfer went extremely smoothly. In spite of two different warnings about how long the transfer would take (One quoted the transfer time as “a few hours”, another said “several days”!), after my credit card was approved, the transfer was made and I found my character sitting on Eitrigg immediately after. Blizzard appears to be covering their asses on the unknown variables.

My personal prediction was that they have a flagging system based on the level, items, and gold sitting on the character during transfer, or if the account owner has a past history. I think it’s a safe bet if the transfer isn’t so immediate, should your transfer request seem less than honorable.

Anyways, I’m just waiting for Kalecgos to make the list of available source realms, i wanna get my 60 mage off there and to a realm where I have friends to run with. My most developed character, and I hardly use him. Pout.

]]>http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/06/28/character-transfers-live/feed/1WoW Crackdown in May: 30k Bannedhttp://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/06/12/wow-crackdown-in-may-30k-banned/
http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/06/12/wow-crackdown-in-may-30k-banned/#commentsMon, 12 Jun 2006 23:30:36 +0000http://azeroth.metblogs.com/2006/06/12/wow-crackdown-in-may-30k-banned/So, the news is that 30,000 accounts being banned in May for gold-farming led to a loss of 30 million gold across all realms. That only comes to 1,000 gold per banned account on average. This number causes a bit of an eyebrow raise for being fairly low, in my opinion. Considering the amount of work needed to make 1,000 gold without breaking the rules, what are players doing that is so much more efficient than just levelling up and constantly running Dire Maul or Strat? I would probably only count myself as being a casual player when it comes to playing time, and I believe that with a realignment of priorities I could make 1,000 gold with relative ease. I’m interested in hearing from other high level players and what their own hourly gold rates are when they start taking the WoW economy seriously, without trying to cheat it.
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